[1] [2] This should be as Engue|rant noteth two yeares after this pre|sent yere 19, to [...], An. 1440.The duke of Summerset vpon further valiance, entered into the marches of Britaine, and tooke by fierce assault a towne named la Gerche, appertein|ing to the duke of Alanson, spoiling and burning the same. This doone, he went to Ponzaie, where he soior|ned two moneths, sending foorth dailie his men of war to destroie the countries of Aniou, Traonnois, and Chatragonnois. The French king sent the marshall Loiach with foure thousand men to resist the inuasions of the duke of Summerset, which mar|shall intended to haue set on the duke in his lodgings in the dead time of the night: but that (as by a wise and hardie capteine) well foreséene, he marched for|ward, and met the Frenchmen halfe the waie, and af|ter long fight, discomfited them, slue an hundred of the marshals men, and tooke thrée score and two pri|soners, wherof the chéefe were the lord Dausignie, sir Lewes de Buell, all the other (almost) were knights and esquiers.